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Science 2 May 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5620, p. 743
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084093
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Vision of the Lynxes

A review by Giovanni F. Bignami

The Eye of the Lynx Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
David Freedberg
University of Chicago, Chicago, 2003. 525 pp., illus. $50, £35.50. ISBN 0-226-26147-6.

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Freedberg discusses the activities and influences of the 17th-century Academy of Lincei-including the members involvement with Galileo, their "paper museum" (an attempt to compile of visual encyclopedia of the entire known world), their blending of what we currently recognize as science and the humanities, and their depictions of the previously invisible microscopic world.
The author is at the Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31028 Toulouse Cedex 4, France, and University of Pavia, Italy. E-mail: giovanni.bignami{at}cesr.fr

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